Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the steel industry hung the threat of a strike. Similar threats hung over the auto industry, the telephone system, the railroads. They were only twitchings, but not to be disregarded on that account. Another industrial convulsion such as shook the country in 1945-1946 would not only wreck the nation's prestige when prestige was so important in world politics, it might shake the whole rickety world right down to its boots...
...paper to bed without a pin-up girl in it. Like their "Gripevine" column, the pretty creatures helped build circulation (now 375,000), and hold it when mustered-out readers had to be coaxed over to the veteran's edition. But an irate letter from Bastrop, Tex. momentarily shook the editors' faith...
Sunburn & Archeology. Despite Mexico City's thin air and his back-breaking schedule, the President seemed to enjoy his furlough from Washington immensely. He returned the "Vivas!" of street crowds, shook hands untiringly at dinners and parties, slept well under a robe of vicuna pelts at the embassy, got up as early as usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological...
Sultry, sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...
Russia and Britain, portrayed by Vassar and Amherst, shook the meeting when both nations exercised their rights of veto on phases of the touchy trusteeship problem. Both later withdrew their actions after lengthy discussion. Taking steps to place the conference on an annual basis, the meeting appointed a continuation committee...